The future of sustainable agriculture will increasingly rely on the integration of biotechnology with traditional agricultural practices. Most sustainable and environmentally acceptable control may be achieved using biocontrol agents due to the effort to reduce the use of agrochemicals and their residues in the environment and in food. Identifying, understanding and utilizing microorganisms or ...

1. Humans as Parts of Forest and Grassland Ecosystems 1.1 Human Subsistence in Forests and Grasslands Based on Gathering and Hunting 1.2 Transition of Natural Communities into Seminatural Communities 2. The Development of Agroecosystems—Agroforestry was the Origin 2.1. The Transition from Food Collection to Food Production 2.2. Agroforestry—What Does it Mean and How Does it Work? 2.3. Nutrient ...

Collaborative Research T he International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), working with hundreds of partners in developing countries, produces technologies and knowledge that better enable farmers, mainly smallholders, to enhance ecoefficiency in agriculture. This means we help make production more competitive and profitable as well as sustainable and resilient through economically and e...

1. The Executive Secretary is circulating herewith, for the information of participants of the fourteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, this note on sustainable agriculture and the sustainable use of agricultural biodiversity: concepts, trends and challenges, as submitted by Bioversity International. The note is circulated in the form and lang...

one of the most important aspects of sustainable development is sustainable agriculture. therefore, nowadays, achieving a sustainable agricultural system is an important policy in agriculture department of countries. the main objective of this study is identifying factors affecting stability of rice cultivation in the city of shirvan and chardavol in ilam province. this study was a survey and i...

sustainable and continuous development of each country is depended to sustainable of agricultural system . therefore achieving sustainable agricultural system is one of the important policies of each country agriculture section . the sustainability of agricultural system depends on many factors . the knowledge of these factors can play an important role in compiling the policies and strategies ...

Due to constant decrease in farmlands, it is important to identify the best lands for sustainable agriculture (productive and profitable agriculture that protects the environment and that is socially equitable). This requirement has resulted in the development of land suitability maps for agriculture by combining a range of factors. Spatial analysis approaches, based on the concepts of the weig...